IN 1891 AND 1892
BY WILLIAM WOODVILLE ROCKHILL
1894 FIRST EDITION
CLASSIC OF EXPLORATION IN TIBET SCARCE
CONDITION: Original green cloth, gilt lettering spine, gilt Tibetan decoration of a wheel on front cover & decoration of a flame on rear cover. The book has fading at the corner tips, very tip (2mm) rubbed through cloth on one corner, covers clean and not faded, tiny pin holes through title page and the following 4 sheets (these were made by somebody stabbing a needle into the book; they are definitely not due to insect or chemical action; they are the diameter of the tip of a standard size sewing needle), solid binding, no foxing, very slight age-browning to pages, previous owner bookplate (NOT ex-library) on front pastedown, no other previous owner marks or writing on any pages, generally a nice example of an increasingly scarce book Price: $925.
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